Doom Witch

Author's Note: Thanks to all for reviewing I really appreciate your advise ^_^ Even if you are a bit mean to Jed . . . does no one love my creation??? Aww . . . well come on just see what happens people yup, yup. Please be easy on my sweet Jeddy . . . I have no other friends *bursts into manic fits of tears* boo hoo hoo!

Woo! My birthday next week! WEDNESDAY! WOOOOOOOOO! I expect lots of cards and wrapping paper! Or lots of reviews would make it up! Sorry been a while since I updated folks, I was in the land of the Eng (England, you numpties!) sharing a happy weekend holiday with my good chum Rozzie and her parental units. WOO! Yeah we had fun. But Scotland is better (I live there, you queerdos!) much much better woo I'm not biased! Honest!

Oh my MSN thing is strange_deluded_one@hotmail.com for any of you poor people who may want to discuss stuffs with myself would be most welcome . . . will you be my friend? Aww . . .

Anyway, just to let you know Dib and Zita's date description will be put off till NEXT chapter because this one turned out longer than I expected. Oops! Oh well. Read anyway! You who thought Gaz had gone a bit mellow are now put at rest as she goes back to her disturbingly scary kick-ass self in THIS CHAPTER! WOO!

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- Chapter Twenty-Three - Face-Off -

Jed was aware she was in Zim's arms, and she was warm, she was aware of that, but she didn't know that her sister had already left and would in fact be there in a matter of days because the Tallest, in their desperation and longing to have Zim killed as soon as possible, had upgraded her top-of- the-range Voot Cruiser so it could go at astonishing speeds. But Jed was happy there with Zim there, even if she knew she'd have to get up in a matter of minutes and go to the skool, sitting in between Zim and that filthy Dib human.

Zim felt her small body slip out of his arms and he gave her rear end a small playful smack. She yelped in laughter and turned on him, her face in a big smile.

"Grrrr," she growled, and he snarled at her. She jumped back onto the bed and pretended to sink her teeth into his shoulder, "I'm a vampire . . . I vant to suck your blood . . . gaaaarrgghh . . . " Zim laughed at her stupidity.

"Foolish child!" he cried, trying to push her off of him so he could get ready for that dratted skool. He had missed most of last week and he didn't want the authorities to try and find out why he was missing skool, thus discovering he had no parents, "Come on, come on, now is the time for getting up!"

She sighed and rolled off him onto her back, her head on the pillow. Zim sat up and reached over onto the table where his much despised yet oh-so- very-cunning disguise lay. He put the wig on his head and placed his contacts in his large eye sockets. When he turned back to speak to her she made a face. "Can't we stay here today?" she said coyly, walking up to him and nuzzling him gently so he couldn't help but put his arms around her and feel every notch on her spine. She moaned softly, "Can't we stay here together?" she whispered in his ear and Zim felt his mouth form the word "yes" but he wouldn't allow the female to overcome his superior will.

He moved his mouth to where her ear should be, but of course as she was Irken she had no such ears, as if it were his turn to whisper in the game, "Tomorrow we'll stay together. Today . . . we have to let the Skool Nazis know we're still alive and willing to be taught the USELESS things they do teach us."

Huffing, Invader Jed stepped back, crossing her arms. She uncrossed one arm and waved it across herself in one sweeping move . . . down, up, and her disguise was on her, with the stunning blue eyes, the raven-like hair, the dark make-up that was now on her face. She was beautiful, Zim knew that, even as a human. He tried to draw close to her but she played hard-to-get and turned the other way. Zim pressed his body against her back and lifted her hair, kissing her neck and the little white elf ear on the side of her head. He felt her eyes close, her long black eyelashes sweeping away the filthy human Earth dust.

As he continued to kiss her neck, small, soft kisses, she moaned pleasurably and turned around, reaching up with her eyes still closed so their mouths collided and their tongues entered each other's, rolling around in the taste of their passion for one another, and the fact that they didn't have long to share it before they had to leave made it all the more powerful. Zim pulled her right into him, her torso squeezed into his and their faces drowning in the other's, until he pushed her away to breathe. They stood gasping, staring at each other for a moment, before they went up to the house part of the base (for they were in the sleeping quarters) and checked on the robots.

MAX was reading a book, "Interview With the Vampire" and because of his random insanity he spontaneously looked up at Zim and Jed, baring his fangs. Jed laughed, because she had just been pretending she was a vampire, but Zim looked at the robot grimly. GIR was nowhere to be seen, but just as they were about to leave he came zooming out of the kitchen and latched himself onto Zim's leg.

"NOOOOO! NO ZIMMY! AH NEED YOOOOUUU!" he screamed. This made Jed laugh, GIR always made her laugh, but he didn't understand that he was being funny and got confused so he tried to chase his tail, then realised he didn't have a tail and . . . ah, it was a bitter trail of confusion and disappointment at his tail-lessness for GIR, but he was just as crazy and insane as he had always been, just much less to Zim now that they both had new companions, which sometimes Zim resented because despite his ignorance and utter stupidity and disobedience, the Irken Invader was quite fond of the walking sardine can.

"Zim, we'll be late for skool," Jed said softly, and Zim nodded, letting the other Irken lead him out of the door and down the path to the pavement where they had an uneventful trip walking to skool, hand in hand.

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Gaz saw them walking in the gate together and felt herself shaking with anger and jealousy. It was her and Zim that were supposed to be together, her and Zim that used to be together but he had just been blind for a while and she had been dormant. She had always cared for him ever since she had felt that funny feeling in her stomach when Zim had walked by one random day. She had ignored it then but still something had happened between them three years ago and something had happened just the other week in the field.

She had kissed him, and he had been shocked but he had come back for more. And no matter how much he cared for that bitch slut Jed, that showed he still cared for Gaz despite his commitment. Could Zim be committed? Jed would not have thought it possible, but obviously she was wrong. Unless Zim was just playing with her to stop her killing him . . . she didn't know, and wasn't sure if she wanted to know or not. Probably not. But Gaz didn't care what their relationship was like, Gaz didn't care how many times Zim kissed her, how many times he felt Jed and how many times he woke up and smelt her, all she cared about was getting what she wanted, and that was Zim.

Watching them with her eyes narrow and angry, Gaz saw Jed talking to one of the other rejects, Melvin, who was now an acne-infested kid with his ever- bulbous eyes and crazy nature, and Zim had his arm around her waist and one of her arms came across his back holding onto the other end of his Irken garment. Gaz watched with narrow eyes Jed stroking Zim's back, talking away happily looking so small compared to Zim who wasn't really very tall himself, then saw Zim kiss the top of Jed's fake hair that glistened in the early autumn's day. With this an angry shiver crept up the now fourteen- year-old's spine.

Yes, today was the day she finally got rid of this Invader Jed, Gaz thought, and she stalked away inside, suddenly realising that Dib had been talking to her the whole time without her noticing.

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In the classroom, Zim felt himself dozing off as Ms Bitters gave another not-very-inspiring talk on how the real cause of pollution was in fact farting and how we could all save the world if we stored our gaseous refuse in jars and ejected them into space, but of course no one could really be bothered to do that so therefore we were all doomed.

At least he got to sit next to Jed, their hands joined under the table, but still he felt himself beginning to daydream, something that rarely happened to him.

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He was in a large dark room with candles lighting the walls, a white tiger throw rug on the floor that he didn't like, a great warmth and source of light coming from the roaring fire in the wall. On the mantelpiece was a golden antique clock ticking away endlessly. The time read 11.35, and Zim reckoned it was at night because of the darkness in the sky. Above the fireplace were several pairs of antlers from Earth deer, and this made Zim think what strange and brutal sports these humans had, their lives were so complex and pointless, entertaining themselves with killing their fellow creatures without a purpose or hatred. Hell, they didn't even kill the animals for food causes! Not that they needed them, humans were fat, greedy creatures anyway.

He was sitting in a large leather armchair, the feet shaped like those of a lion with sharp claws that would make your foot very painful if you stubbed your toe on it. On his lap was Jed, her arms around his neck, her head lolling onto Zim's chest, eyes closed. She was sleeping, or resting, because Jed preferred not to sleep. Zim closed his eyes and nuzzled her, kissed her, felt the outline of her soft face with the tip of his gloved finger delicately, careful not to break her. He opened his eyes and cried out, for it was not Jed who now lay sleeping in his arms.

It was Gaz.

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Awake with a jolt, Zim had obviously cried out in reality too, as the class were all looking at him, judging him. Oh, how he hated all of them, looking on him as if he were stupid and insignificant, how he would enjoy killing each and every one of them, these miserable humans he so detested. Jed tried to pry her hand out of Zim's grip which was clearly hurting her as he was clenching so tightly. He loosened his hold on her and she relaxed, rubbing his knuckle with her thumb lightly before taking her hand away and rubbing it, thinking he couldn't see.

Once the class had settled down again, Dib leaned across his desk and said to Jed, "Is your boyfriend going even crazier than he normally is . . . or were you maybe holding more than just his hand . . . ?" he said it so sweetly and nastily right in her ear that she had to hold herself down lest she stand up and draw attention to herself, which Zim had noticed was one thing Jed didn't like to do.

Instead she gave him the most vicious glare she could muster and Zim saw Dib flinch out of the corner of his eye, snickered to himself and left Jed to it. She could clearly stick up for herself, which she had proven before.

"At least I don't go groveling to some prep to take you on some date because you can't get anyone you're actually attracted to," Jed snapped back at Dib, who opened his mouth with a response but clamped it shut again like a guppy fish, because the thing was, he was uncannily attracted to Zita even if she normally wasn't his type, and he was definitely not the type she normally went after . . . not that he would ever be anything more to her than one date with the geeky boy to see what it was like, part of a dare by her girlfriends . . . Jed smiled. She had obviously realised she had struck a vulnerable chord with Dib and he snarled. She was the first one he would to take out of the Irkens, her, then Zim, and then the world would be safe. Or so he thought, because of course Dib didn't know that Tak was on her way to Earth at that very moment. He sneered at Jed, then returned to trying to listen to Ms Bitters while Jed rested her head on Zim's shoulder.

"Jed! Zim!" Ms Bitters drawled, "Do you know why it is people are so miserable?"

"Because they know of their impending DOOOOM!" Zim roared, the first intensely manic display for that morning. Jed chuckled.

"Basically, Ms Bitters, because we're all doomed?" she said innocently with a smile on her black lip-sticked lips.

"NO!" Ms Bitters yelled, "Because you're all noooottthiing! And it's also because of the miserable shrimpy love we share with another pathetic life. It's all nooootttthing! And we're also miserable, because, as Jed said we're all doooooooooomed! Doomed, doomed, doomed, doomed . . . "

Jed had a confused look on her face for a couple of seconds but she shrugged it off and sniggered with Zim until the bell signaling the end of a long, doomy day and they slipped out of their seats and left the room.

Only Dib and Zita remained, she had stayed behind to wait for him. He walked her out like he did all the time now and put her books in the car. "I'm really, like, looking forward to tonight, Dib," she said prettily, because they had a date at the park planned for that night. To be honest, Dib was absolutely dreading it but really liked Zita so nodded and gaped open-mouthed when she gave him a kiss on the cheek, on his pale, white smooth skin.

"Bye, Dib!" she called from the back of the convertible, "pick me up at seven thirty!" and Dib stared after her in wonder, not being able to figure out how he had wound up with a date with the most beautiful, popular girl in the whole year? It just didn't make sense to Dib Membrane, who wandered home in a daze. Until he saw the fight.

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Jed was standing on the pavement alone, leaning against a lamppost, rolling a stone forward and backwards with her foot waiting for Zim to come out of the supermarket with the pizza for GIR. She was expecting to be there a while as she could see from here that the queue was way, way back. Damn human systems, she thought, and then she heard the voice of a person she didn't like very much.

"Hey, slapper!" Gaz called to Jed across the street. Jed kicked the stone ahead of her and crossed the road to the opposite pavement where Gaz was. They stood staring each other down for a while, both eyes narrowed. Gaz's eyes were invisible and Jed's were angry and defiant.

"What?" Jed asked in her nastiest tone which was very low and very quiet, but very clear and unmistakably dangerous. Gaz was probably the only one that wouldn't be phased by that tone of Jed's, and that was only because she was equally scary, even moreso, as even though Jed was insidely very strong, the average person on the street would not expect her to use such a tone despite her disguise's appearance as a Goth, an outsider, a social misfit.

"I just wanted to tell you it's over," Gaz said in a similarly dangerous tone, but hers had a knowing smirk whereas Jed was oblivious to what Gaz meant. The two disliked each other intensely, hated each other even, but had always avoided each other since the gun incident in Zim's house, but now they were face to face, eye to eye, frown to frown, "you may as well just back away and go back to your home planet, Jed. Zim's mine."

Here, Jed let out a loud laugh that sounded not unlike Tak's, high-pitched and intense, which was unexpected especially as Jed normally sounded so laid-back and relaxed. Once she had finished laughing, she looked at Gaz with an ugly smile on her pretty face, "Zim destroyed my home planet, you sad, sad little human. Take your petty obsessions elsewhere, as Zim is certainly not yours. He is, as you say, "mine." "

Gaz frowned and shook her head, "Well, explain to me then why he kissed me, if he is so incredibly and totally devoted to you." At those words, Jed looked a little worried as well as furious, but she managed another laugh regardless.

"Whatever happened between you and Zim long ago is finished, Gaz," she said slowly, clearly, nastily, "surely you can see with me and Zim's holding hands and kissing that we are together, not you and -"

Gaz cut her off, saying, "Oh, I'm not talking about before, Jed."

Jed scowled at her rival, sneering, "What are you talking about then? When are you talking about? Is this one of your puny Earth dreams, Gaz? Because they aren't real, you know."

"I'm talking about three weeks ago. When he left the house . . . to look for me. He found me, oh yes he did, and I kissed him and he pulled away," Gaz watched Jed's reaction change with fascination and delight, first from disbelief to anger and then relief when she said Zim pulled away, "he pulled away, and he called for Dib, who was looking for me also, and then he started to walk away, and then do you know what he did, Jed?" Jed's face was set as stone, her eyes cold and hating, staring mercilessly into Gaz's slits for eyes, "He came back and he kissed me, that's what he did. He didn't have to come back but he did, and when he did come back he kissed me and he kissed me hard and he meant it."

When Gaz had finished, she leaned back on her right leg watching Jed trying to calculate it all in her head. But all the Irken said was, "You're lying."

"No, I'm not. Why would I lie? I have nothing to lie about. What I say is the truth and that's all it is." Gaz said, clearly enjoying Jed's look of hopelessness.

"You . . . you . . . you're sick, you know? All humans are, but you, you are twisted and demented inside. You dream of your passion so strongly you believe it happened. You're so desperate for Zim you can't accept he's with me. You're a sad, desperate, weak and petty human with no - aargh!" Jed started and sounded like she could go on forever because she was so angry but Gaz had thrown herself on top of Jed and they were rolling on top of each other swinging fists and teeth ripping each other's clothes and fingers pulling at hair, legs kicking and heads ramming into the other.

Quite a crowd had gathered around them, and it looked like it could go on forever. Jed was pinned underneath Gaz, who was throwing punches at her face and shoulders, and Jed was kicking and flailing her arms around, and then Gaz spoke for the first time since they had been fighting. "You tell me I'm weak, you tell me I'm petty, but really you are just as bad . . . WORSE!" Gaz burst out laughing and began punching again, but she had angered Jed beyond comprehension and she was screaming curses at Gaz, feeling pain and betrayal and fury, but the fury overtook all other emotions and Jed flung Gaz off of her by getting her knees under Gaz's stomach and heaving as hard as she could.

Gaz flew over to the other side of the human circle that had been made for them and landed on her back, but was on her feet before Jed could get up and fling herself at Gaz, so they were on their feet clawing and punching and kicking at each other with only anger and hatred and jealousy fueling them.

They kept going like that for a long time before Dib encountered them as he walked home from skool, and he pushed his way through the crowds calling Gaz's name as loudly as he could. "GAZ! GAZ STOP! GAZ!" he yelled, but the mindless sounds of "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" were overwhelming the young paranormal investigator. Finally he got to the centre and pulled Gaz back from Jed, which gave the female Irken all the time she needed to pull out her gun, which just looked like a water pistol to the spectators, but Jed, Dib and Gaz knew very well what it was capable of.

Jed smirked. "Hmm! De ja vu ," she sniggered, panting and gasping for the air she had only been able to take in small desperate breaths during the fight. Her blood boiled with pain and adrenaline as her finger tightened on the trigger. She wasn't going to give Gaz the same chance this time. Some agitated cries of "Move! Hey! Hey! I'll destroy you! Hey! Hey! MOVE!" came from within the crowd and distracted Jed. During this time Dib leaned forward and grabbed the gun, throwing it onto the ground, running around behind Jed and grabbing her by the neck and pulling her backwards.

The Irken female screamed in rage and scratched at Dib's arm. Gaz stared at her brother, then looked at the gun, considering picking it up and shooting Jed now, but Zim broke through the crowd and absorbed the scene before staring at Gaz long and hard, glowered at her and ran straight for Dib. He knocked him clean over and Jed fell hard to the ground, crying out as she hit. Zim began to lay into Dib but Jed, gathering her breath, patted him on the leg so he would look at her, and she shook her head.

"You touch her again with those flabby sausages on the ends of your filthy hands again, Dib-Stink, and I will destroy you, mark my words!" Zim hissed to him.

Zim dropped Dib and picked Jed up in his arms, bruised and bloodied from the battle. Before he left he picked up Jed's gun at Gaz's feet and put it in his Pak. He glanced at Gaz, and then at the semi-unconscious Jed in his arms, then back at Gaz. "Don't hurt her again," he snarled to her, then walked through the crowd back to the base.

Dib was on his feet again and looked at his sister. He shook his head in distaste at her, then walked the opposite direction for home, to try and clean himself up before his date as best he could.

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When Jed came round properly, she was lying on the couch in the house quarters of the base, GIR sitting at the end of it watching T.V., MAX was sitting on the floor still reading his book which he had nearly finished now. He would still randomly bare his fangs if someone walked past him or if someone said something to disrupt his reading world.

"I LOVE YOOOUUUU!" GIR squealed when Zim entered the room with an ointment to put on Jed's cuts. Zim simply nodded at the robot. Soon GIR got bored of T.V. and switched it off, dragging MAX into the kitchen still reading his book randomly hissing like a vampire. Zim sat down beside Jed and started cleaning up her face.

"I'm sorry," she said quietly to him, because Zim wouldn't look her in the eye, "she . . . she attacked me and I should have resisted but she made me so angry. It was as if she wanted me to fight her."

"She's stronger than you," Zim said simply. Jed pulled away from the cream he was putting on her forehead, partly because it stung her and partly because she resented that comment.

"She is not!" she retorted, "She was just . . . she's a human, Zim. How can she be stronger than me?" Zim shrugged and started putting on the cream again, gentler this time.

"Why were you fighting?" he asked, "Didn't I warn you to stay away from her?"

She nodded, "Yes, I know. She provoked me, and she provoked me well. I was a fool to really believe that you would have kissed her anyway." This time Zim pulled away, freezing in the chair. She cocked her head and narrowed her eyes. "Zim?" When he said nothing, she gasped and sprung out of her chair. "You did kiss her, didn't you?! In the field, on that night when it was raining and you left! That night Tak called! She said you walked away and went back to kiss her!" Zim just sat there, frozen. Jed began to cry, something she had never done before, and began to kick the couch he was kneeling on hopelessly, "Why won't you say anything?" she sobbed, sinking to her knees on the floor, punching the sofa with her fist, her sore forehead buried deep into the leather.

Zim hopped off the couch and knelt beside her, placing a hand on her shoulder. She shrugged him off bitterly but he put his hand on her back and she didn't resist him, but began to sob helplessly into the settee, her arms covering her face. Zim rubbed her back up and down gently, whispering to her, "Shhhh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

She shook her head, "No," she whispered, so he had to lean in to her speaking to the couch, "no, no, you're not sorry, you're never sorry, you're too proud to ever be sorry. I'm sorry . . . I'm sorry I wasn't good enough for you."

Zim gently placed his hands around her small waist trying not to touch any bruises but if he did then she didn't flinch. She was strong, but she had too many weaknesses. That was why Zim was still alive. He pulled back on her so she faced him, sitting on the floor, her hands buried into her face and her body tipped over bent onto the floor so he couldn't see her. She was out of her disguise, they both were, he could see that, but he couldn't see her face.

"Let me see your face," he whispered to her.

"You don't love me," she hissed, "you don't want me."

"Let me see your face."

Jed moaned lightly as she lifted her stomach, there was probably a particularly painful bruise there that he would have to heal later, if she would let him. He took her hands from her face and they dropped uselessly by her sides. He looked at her and took in his breath sharply. She was more beautiful than he remembered, so much more beautiful when she was out of her disguise, and now she was crying she was breath taking. Her red eyes swam with salty human emotions she loathed and longed to stop crying but she was so fatigued she didn't care what happened then.

"You're so beautiful. Beautiful . . . " Zim murmured, stroking her face, touching a tear. The water from her eyes didn't sting his flesh or hers, but it stung something inside him which made him feel bad. "Computer." Zim said blankly, and the Computer, who had been watching and not expecting Zim to summon him started with a shaky voice from all the emotion. "Play some Nirvana. Heart-Shaped Box. NOW!"

The music began.

"She has me like a Pisces when I am weak, I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week . . . " Kurt Cobain sang, and Jed raised her bruised head.

"What's that?" she whispered, allowing Zim to take her hand, but she didn't squeeze his hand but he held her tight.

"That's Nirvana, three humans playing human instruments, singing human words, but there's something . . . " Zim trailed off unable to finish.

"Special," Jed said, and Zim nodded. Yes, special. It wasn't anything specific, it was simply special. He looked at her. She looked at him.

"You're special," he said, trying to lean in to kiss her, but she turned her head away from him, these funny "tears" falling from her still. 'Where did they come from? When did they end? Could she run out of them?' wondered Zim as he looked on her, wanting to kiss her so much, wanting to kiss her tears and cuts and bruises and worries all away.

"Don't kiss me," she mused, speaking so softly that it sent ripples of heartache up Invader Zim's spine. Invader Zim, the proud, manic, intense, focused, resourceful Invader Zim that was now clutching an assassin's hand so tightly, longing her to love him, yet it was something he could not bring himself to say to her because he was not so very sure he did love her or not. He was still on the "like" matter, he had no desire to understand love. Yet he longed for her to want him. Yes, want, that was the word to describe their relationship. It could never last, because it was something they wanted. Zim knew the human saying "I want never gets!" and it was true, it was so unfairly true.

"Don't kiss me," Jed whispered, "just hold me."

Obligingly, Zim moved closer with her consent and wrapped his warm arms around her, drawing her in, rocking her back and forth, while she said over and over, "just hold me," which is what he did, perhaps for the whole night. 'I will make it up to her tomorrow,' Zim thought, 'Skool can wait. I cannot lose her. I know I will lose her . . . just not yet. A little while more.' He kissed her forehead, forgetting she had told him not to kiss her. He waited for her to react, to tell him to let go, but it was okay, she was asleep and didn't know. He had never known Jed to fall asleep, but she had.

"A little while more." He said to her, stroking her face lined with swelling bruises, rocking her back and forth like a cradle, nuzzling her but not so hard so that she woke up. He rocked her in the dark to the rhythm of Nirvana, playing above them in the speakers, but it felt like they came from a far off place that they both wanted to stay in forever.

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A/N: Oh dear this has got a bit mellow folks! Don't worry next chapter is DEFINITELY more comical. *wipes eyes with tissue* Oh how emotional this love triangle is! Love triangle of DOOOOM! O.o

Sorry I didn't get the Dib Date in this chapter, folks, but it's in the next one. The chapter (called "The Truth About Chihuahuas") is extreeeeeeeemely 100% crazy fun stuff with maybe a couple of tinges of mellow-ness (from Gaz's POV and stuff) but it's mainly Dib looking back dreamily on the night before, while Zim, Jed and the robots skive skool to go into the city again, where they encounter the dreaded dog-with-meat thing again but this time we discover the dreaded truth of the evil doggie! AAARGH!

So it's going to be a bit of a mad fill in chapter of doom and dismay but the chapter after that is all crazy depressing love story again *sigh* HEY! This is the LONGEST CHAPTER YET! Yup! You heard right, squiffers! 5,702!!!

Anyway! AAARGH! I've actually finished writing the synopsis' of the rest of the story! Still got quite a while to go yet, 40 chapters to my schedule but I might have to stretch it out a bit to 41 or even 42 or something but I dunno don't tell me!! Anyway . . . I'm going to start writing the next chapter, and then once I've done that I will . . . *dramatic drum roll* start on a couple of new fics! That's right, folksies! NEW ONES!

One is a Zim one . . . the other is . . . hey the synopsis' are in my bio so read that okay people of doom? I love you all so much! Okay but keep reviewing alright. Man this is a long author's note; I'm sorry for blethering folks. Bubi!

"If you'd accept surrender I'll give up some more weren't you adored? I cannot be without you matter of fact, oh-oh woah oh, I'm on your back." - Walking After You, Foo Fighters.